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Minerals from South Carolina


Images below are hyperlinked.....click mineral to enlarge

To order a mineral give the mineral name and the number of the specimen(s) you wish to purchase. 
You will receive that exact specimen(s). 

Satisfaction is guaranteed. 

 
Muscovite on Schist

Specimen  # 1451

Haile Mine, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Kershaw,  Lancaster County, South Carolina

10 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm

$ 30
   




Muscovite on Schist

Specimen  # 1451

Another view of glistening muscovite which looks like a thin layer of copper strands on the surface of the native white and gray schist rock.

   


Muscovite on Schist

Specimen  # 1452

Haile Mine, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Kershaw,  Lancaster County, South Carolina

Glistening muscovite which looks like a very thin network of scattered copper colored strands on the surface of the native white and gray schist rock.

13  x 8 x 6.5 cm

$ 15
   

Muscovite on Schist

Specimen  # 1452

A closer view of this specimen; the muscovite here is composed of much finer strands that are further apart


   

Gold ore in matrix


Specimen # 1453

Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina

Price determined by the amount of sulphides and/or metallic inclusions on the surface of the host rock; I have not had these specimens assayed;
these were obtained from the previous mining and not the current mining operation

5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm

$ 50
   


Gold ore in matrix

Specimen # 1453

A closer view of this specimen where it is easy to see pyrites and/or gold scattered everywhere on/in this native quartz-sericite schist rock;
there is not only gold in these rocks, but there is so much pyrite that at one time sulphuric acid was produced here

   

Gold ore in matrix

Specimen # 1454

Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina


Massive sulfide deposits embedded in white to cream colored quartz-sericite shists; this is the dominate color of most shists at this location

18.5 x 9.5 x 6 cm

$ 28
   



Gold ore in matrix

Specimen # 1454


Another view of this specimen.  The pyrites and/or gold is mainly concentrated in small sulfide deposits on this rock. 
There is usually some gold colored inclusions on some every piece of material.


   

Gold ore in matrix


Specimen # 1455

Haile Mine, 3 ½ miles northeast of Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina

Massive sulfide deposits embedded in white to cream colored shists
 
14 x 9 x 5 cm

$ 20
   




Gold ore in matrix

Specimen # 1455

Click on the specimen to see another close-up view of the pyrite/gold deposits on/in the schist.

 

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